Last year, I’d already gone skiing twice before Christmas. This year… the difference is like night and day. Despite a record snow year last season (and an accompanying unusually late opening), Tioga Road is still open. It hasn’t been open this late in the last 30 YEARS!!! While this is bad news for the ski [...]
I like skiing through trees. However I’m not the best skier and often I cannot control my proximity to the trees. Duck under a branch, brush by the trunk – I cut it way too close. Injury is not really a concern, but the other weekend I side-swiped a branch fairly hard. My first thought [...]
I slip on the ice for the third time in as many feet. I can see my breath and there is snow everywhere. The valley floor, in Yosemite, is covered in a foot of frozen water (snow). Why am I here? At the end of 2009, I left the land of eternal sunshine (San Diego) [...]
I wasn’t one of those lucky kids whose parents put them on skis not long after they learned to walk: I didn’t discover snow sports until high school, when many of my friends had decided to switch from skiing to snowboarding, so until last year, snowboarding was all I knew. But I decided to try [...]
I thought I knew what alpine climbing was about. I thought that Dark Star would be a walk in the park surrounded by hours of hiking. Boy was I wrong!! The description for Dark Star includes around 17 pitches with a bunch of 4th class and only two pitches of 5.10. While the base of [...]
Lizzy and I spent our New Years vacation in Bishop and Mammoth. After a series of winter storms we were worried about the weather in Saint George and the consequences of becoming a belay popsicle while sport climbing. With plenty of jackets and the strong California sun we thought we could brave the weather [...]
We now have about 8 inches at our house, which is less than 100ft above sea level. And it’s still snowing. Snowy house To distract myself from worrying about my flight tomorrow, Maddy and I went sledding. It was sweet. Maddy also built a snow daschund, which is also pretty sweet. Setting up for the [...]
Watch funny videos on the internet! These are two of my absolute favorites and I hadn’t watched them in a while, but they’re just as good as they were the first time I saw them. Enjoy! Here’s the original, “Lazy Sunday”: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1881816&w=425&h=350&fv=] And here’s the West Coast response, “Lazy Monday”: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1881828&w=425&h=350&fv=width%3D480%26height%3D392%26mediaId%3D11196%26affiliateId%3D0%26javascriptContext%3Dtrue%26skinURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fflash.revver.com%2Fplayer%2F1.0%2Fskins%2FDefault_Raster.swf%26skinImgURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fflash.revver.com%2Fplayer%2F1.0%2Fskins%2Fnight_skin.png%26actionBarSkinURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fflash.revver.com%2Fplayer%2F1.0%2Fskins%2FDefaultNavBarSkin.swf%26resizeVideo%3DTrue] Lizzy
The forecasts came true and now there is snow all over Washington. I think the Arlington area got the most – over 2 feet according to the news. Redmond, where I grew up, got around a foot. Here in Poulsbo we only got a couple inches, but everything still looks beautiful. Some photos: These photos [...]
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